#nagi has him

[review-anon]

Thoughts about Xander Matthews?

And thus we get to @alizachan's husbando. Well one of them but let's face it everyone and their mother simps for Hajime Hinata.

I mentioned before in Min's ask that I consider Xander to be the important death, and he is because he was the classic trope of "First character protagonist meet and susquently befriends ends up stabbing them in the back." Well in Xander's case he stabbed Teruko in the front but that's being techinical.

I find the title of Ultimate Rebel to be such a fasinating paradox because on one hand Xander is clearly a guy who is very passoniate about what he believes in and isn't afraid to go up against injustice. At the same tiime though, the fact he's an Ultimate means he cannot challenge the status quo too much, so like Bubbles I believe Xander is allowed to go after the idiots who make their misdeeds too obvious and bring down the real villains with them and smoke them out. Its the classic way to curbing resistance, playing the resistance.

Its also interesting that Xander clearly cares about Teruko yet when he's given "proof" that Teruko needs to die, he doesn't hesistate to do so. I've seen people suggest that David is the one who gave Xander the note as Xander clearly worships David and wouldn't question anything he says, but since David at the time also probably didn't know about Teruko's true nature, I think Xander was the first shot at trying to get Teruko killed, but when that failed, the target was switched to David.

One thing to note is that Xander's eyepatch is very recent as he's still bleeding from his eye. We don't know how it happened but I suspect it has something to do with the prologue where a unknown person was attacked by someone, assumed to be Teruko. Obviously the blood was used to his advantage as he could exploit that to frame Charles for his crime of killing Teruko and since Charles would be in a state of shock he wouldn't be able to defend himself.

Now despite a obvious David simp trying to say otherwise, I don't believe David cared for Xander and at best he saw him as an useful idiot. And I think if Xander was around to see David's true nature, he would be horrified. One thing those two do have in connection though is their eye colour as they start out yellow but then when shit gets serious they dullen. I find that to be a interesting tie between the two.

The bonus video of Xander explains why he hates the rich so much, and obvious example of the Despair Time world being very fucked up, and it also implies he has survivor's guilt as he was the only one who lived while his family died. This could explain why he would be willing to go along with killing Teruko because if Xander gets killed, he can be reunited with his family.

Xander is a cool guy and I'm glad unlike some other Chapter 1 deaths, his demise wasn't forgotten about as he was still a heavy presense in Chapter 2 and I suspect it will still be the case going forward.

[seishiroses]

This episode was amazing because we got:

Nagi being so cool 🔥

Nagi being so cute 🥺

But most importantly

Nagi being absolutely spooked 🤣

[m1ckeyb3rry]

i know it’s kinda sad that none of the top six wanted to room with rin and while i do feel bad for him i can’t even blame the others for it 😭 like yukimiya shidou and karasu (and otoya in a month or so i believe) are all old enough to vote, take out loans, get married, and rent property LMAOAOA if i were them i wouldn’t want to room with some fuckass bossy rude kid in his first year of high school (sorry rin fans but that’s the vibe he gives off in verse i’m p sure) that’s basically glorified babysitting but instead of getting paid they just have ego watching them at all times 😓

[explomb]

Kurona's reaction to Reo stealing his move being "respectable work" is so cute and exactly why we love him

[saph-yells-into-the-void]

just a reminder that it was nagi who chose to team up with reo at the beginning of NEL, not the other way around.

I've seen some people say that this moment is ego blaming reo for Nagi's downfall when that is just not true. he said that nagi should've chose to keep fighting on his own during the mc vs bm game but instead chose to run back to reo and that is what killed his talent. reo has never been the one at fault; it's all the result of nagi's own choices.

[kaikaikarasu]

BABY KARASU BABY KARASU BABY KARASU BABY KARASU I MIGHT CRY

This hurt my heart

Sweets I love you so much

Also this panel gives me deja vu cause remember that one Kaiser panel?

Yeah.

[prettyboykatsuki]

FANG?!?! THE BLLK LEAKS???? ARE YOU OKAY?

im crushed lol. i knew this was gonna happen to nagi from jump it’s been implied since the beginning pretty much!!!! but it happened so much sooner than i thought it would. i know kaneshiro is gonna bring him back he loves nagi but we are not gonna see him for so long and it’s making me so sad. but also im so proud of him like thats my baby i dont know ☹️

[moonsuke]

I keep seeing this snippet of Nomura glazing Reo calling him a genius, all-rounder, rich, has everything etc., and Kaneshiro adding on that he's beautiful too which I thought didn't really flow that well and not Kaneshiro-ish? So I went to look for the original Japanese source and apparently he uses "男前" (otokomae) which makes soooo much more sense to me and fits the image I've of Reo (and what I think Kaneshiro's image of Reo is) better.

"男" (otoko) means "man" and "前" (mae) means "front", so rather than beautiful it's more like a handsome, good-looking man, more masculine than say "ikemen". But more than just describing physical appearance, 男前 is also meant to symbolize an ideal man or masculinity in terms of personality, style, appearance, the overall package which fits Reo's elite status well.

For example being well-groomed, has good manners, generous, popular, charismatic, cool, the sorta guy every guy looks up to etc. (Basically Chad lmao). In Japan, an image conjured of such a guy would be one that smoothly pays for everyone's dinner in the group without raising attention to that fact, or just buying everyone drinks etc. When I searched up "男前", the first example that pop up was Kimura Takuya lmaoo.

Anyway I was saying 男前 fits what I thought the interview? was trying to convey better, and what Kaneshiro is trying to portray with Reo with the super elite dude and all.

And of course the snippet ended with how his strong attachment to Nagi makes him spiral which according to Kaneshiro, is the best part of him lol.

[lightprkdraws]

AU where Reo is short

[animentality]

why am I imagining Reo talking to Bachira at the bar and saying, what's it like, having a loyal husband

and Bachira sighs and says as if I have one. we're just in an open relationship.

and then they have to clink their glasses.

[slightlytoastedbagel]

'a dream where they are "walking seperate paths"' seems to imply that they are all witnessing the same dream from their own perspectives, however it's also very vague so the moment they're walking seperate paths could be anywhere between vbs just never forming to the group actually disbanding after what happened with taiga to them focusing solely on rad blast and having nowhere to go after that so. yeah that's it. however I really doubt it's that last one and I can't see vbs just quitting at a point like lutf (those kids are STUBBORN and also want to support their friend) so I guess we're going with no vbs ever land. which should be fun. (lying I am shaking)

[cruel-hiraeth]

in my mind palace bachira and nagi have the biggest cocks in blue lock

[m1ckeyb3rry]

people will be like “mira your au ideas are so good” and then these are my au ideas:

(you guys better appreciate my amazing handwriting and calligraphy and artistic skills i worked very hard on this /s)

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

does reo not also want to be your dog? 🥺 maybe he's more puppy than anything

HE FOR SURE DOES in the sense that he wants to be of service to you !!!!!! he just didn’t call to me when i made those posts ….. :0 not sure if i would call him a guard dog bf ? not that he isn’t overprotective because he absolutely is ….. and he’s possessive…. he just doesn’t have dog vibes to me at all . i guess. reo is more of an owner ….. does that make sense at all

[littencloud9]

i lowkey believe nagi is going to pull an oikawa and play for some foreign team that bllk u20 will have to play against in the world cup. call it #madcope but isagi’s last words being “don’t stop playing soccer” definitely mean something. plus being locked off means you can’t ever play for japan’s national team again, it doesn’t mean you can’t ever play. anyway this is how nagi will come back— [gets shot]

[kaikaikarasu]

No thoughts head empty just

Karasu being a menace in both ways